Dr. Kate Marek
Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Crown 331
708-524-6648
kmarek@dom.edu
Office hours before class as arranged by appointment.
LIS 753 is
an introduction to the fundamentals of the Internet, including its origins,
evolution, current state, and future. Critical Internet issues such as privacy,
copyright, and other related topics will be examined. Students will have a
basic understanding of Web content languages and the Internet as a result of
this course. Pre-requisites are 701 and 703.
To gain a
basic understanding of networking principles and techniques, Internet protocols
and architecture, and major telecommunication issues.
To gain a basic understanding of the World Wide Web, coding standards, Web site
design and page layout, and current issues.
To develop the understanding and skills to produce a group of linked HTML
documents that can be published on the Internet.
To understand the use and benefits of the World Wide Web in libraries today,
and to gain an appreciation for the Web's many complex social and legal issues.
To gain an understanding of the complexities that are involved when libraries
today mount digital resources on the Web, and how this fits into a national and
international information infrastructure.
Castro,
Additional
readings are available electronically as referenced for each class meeting.
This course will
begin with one full-day, face-to-face meeting on the Dominican campus. The remainder of the class will be conducted
fully online using Blackboard course management software.
Content includes HTML
training and exercises, readings relevant to Internet issues and theory, and
class discussion forums. Detailed assignments and instructions are posted on
the Blackboard site.
The course
is divided into ten Sessions on Blackboard.
Students should move through the Sessions sequentially, finishing the
Exercise and
There will be four synchronous online meetings using Adobe
Connect software. Discussions during
these sessions will focus on course readings; there will also be opportunities
to discuss the XHTML exercises and for questions / general comments. Students are required to log in to two
of the four sessions. See the course
calendar handout for schedules; specifics (including the URL for session
log-in) will be distributed via email.
Refer to Grading Rubrics (posted in the Blackboard Course
Documents folder) for information about assignment evaluation.
Blackboard
support documents are posted at http://domin.dom.edu/documents/blackboardstu.htm
For minimum
system recommendations, see http://domin.dom.edu/Intranet/infotech_files/Minimum%20System%20Recommendations.pdf
Students
are required to have access to a standard computer microphone (headset not
required but might be useful) and a digital voice recorder.
Due Date
Part #1: Gaining
competencies and understanding
HTML / XHTML
Exercises, 10 @ 3 points Weekly as listed 30
points
Discussion Forums on
Blackboard, By April 20 15 points
3 @ 5 points
Part #2:
Demonstrating competencies and understanding
Audio Essay: Web-based lecture
review and report March
30 10 points
Final Web Page April
13 25 points
Final Exam April
20 15 points
Class contribution
and participation
(via
two Adobe Connect sessions) 5 points
Total possible points 100
All due dates are
posted with the Course Sessions. Late
assignments will not be accepted beyond two days of the due date; grades will be
reduced 10% per day late.
Grading:
A 94 -100 %
A- 90 – 93 %
B+ 86 – 89 %
B 82 – 85 %
B- 78 – 81 %
C+ 74 – 77 %
C 70 – 73 %
C- 65 – 69%
F 0 -- 64 %
See also the GSLIS Grading Policy as distributed in class and as posted on Blackboard.
"All students of the GSLIS are expected to observe high
standards of academic honesty and integrity. Any student whose conduct violates
such standards may be subject to disciplinary action as determined by due process."
(GSLIS Bulletin, p. 23) Plagiarism
is unacceptable and will result in project failure.
Course
(Note: Additional course readings may be posted
throughout the term. Check Blackboard’s
Assignments section for the most current list of readings; readings are
organized on Blackboard by Session for Sessions 1 – 10.)
These
readings are listed by broad topic in the order they appear in the course
assignments.
Introduction to HTML." W3C. Available online at http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp.
"HTML Code Tutorial." Available online at http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
.
"Structure
of an HTML 4.0
Document." Web Design Group. Available online at http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/structure.html
.
Internet
History
Internet Society. "A Brief History of the Internet." Available online at http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml .
See
also the William Slater Power Point referenced in Blackboard.
Website
Evaluation
"Evaluate
Web Pages / Original Web Evaluation Materials." Wolfgram Memorial Library,
Design
Basics
Barrett, Edward, Deborah Levinson, and Suzana
Lisanti. The MIT Guide to Teaching Web Site Design.
Marek,
Kate. Design Handout. Available in Course
Documents section of Blackboard.
Norman,
Don. "Simplicity is Highly Overrated." JND.org. 2007. Available online at http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/simplicity_is_highly.html
.
Web Page Usability
Nielsen, Jakob. “Useit.com: Useable
Information Technology.” Available online at http://www.useit.com/. (Browse this site; you are not required to
follow the numerous links or to read extensively from this site.)
“Usability,” from Wikipedia. Available
online at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability
.
“Jakob Nielsen,” from Wikipedia.
Available online at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nielsen_%28usability_consultant%29
.
Bad Design and Usability
“Vincent Flanders’ Web Pages that Suck.”
Available online at
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
.
Writing
for the Web
Nielsen,
Jakob.
"How Users Read on the Web. " Available online at http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html.
Cyberinfrastructure
Designing Cyberinfrastructure for Collaboration and Innovation.
“Introduction,” Available at http://cyberinfrastructure.us/
Designing Cyberinfrastructure for Collaboration and Innovation. Issues: “The
Conundrum of Enablement and Control” Available online at http://www.si.umich.edu/cyber-infrastructure/issues.htm
Openness
Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation: Harnessing the
Benefits of Openness. Pages 1-16. Available online at http://www.ced.org/docs/report/report_ecom_openstandards.pdf
Broadband Deployment
"Broadband Internet Access." Wikipedia.
Available online at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_Internet_access
.
OECD Broadband Statistics to June 2006. Available online at www.oecd.org/sti/ict/broadband
.
Internet
Searching
Pew Internet & American Life Project. "Search Engine
Users." January 2005. Available online at http://www.knewworld.com/_assets/whitepapers/WP1001%20-%20PIP_Searchengine_users.pdf
.
Search Engine Definitions: See SearchWebServices.com at http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,290660,sid26_gci212955,00.html
Google Pank
Rank. See http://www.google.com/technology/
.
Library
2.0 / Web 2.0
"Web
2.0: The Maching is Us/ing
Us," at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&eurl= .
Stephens,
Michael. "Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social
Software." Library Technology Reports, July / August 2006. (full issue) Available online via Academic Search Premier.
Habib, Michael. "Academic Library 2.0 Concept Model"
Image posted on Flickr. See full set of Habib's
Library 2.0 images online at http://flickr.com/photos/habibmi/sets/72157594247454511/
Tonkin,
Emma. "Making the
Case for a Wiki." Ariadne, January
2005. Available online
at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue42/tonkin/
.
Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization, defined at
Wikipedia. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization
.
"The Basics of Search Engine
Optimization." Ask Google / Yahoo! / MSN. Available online at http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-01-07-n13.html
.
Social Software /
Social Networks
Pew Internet & American Life project.
“Social Networking Websites and Teens: An Overview.” Available online at http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_SNS_Data_Memo_Jan_2007.pdf
Boyd, Danah. “Friends, Friendsters,
and MySpace Top 8: Writing Community Into Being on Social Network Sites” First Monday, 11(12),
December 2006.
Available
online at http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_12/boyd/index.html
Mitrano,
Tracy. “A Wider World: Youth, Privacy,
and Social Networking Technologies.” EDUCAUSE Review.
November / December 2006.
Available online at http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0660.pdf
Taxonomies / Tagging
Pew Internet & American Life Project.
"Forget Dewey and His Decimals, Internet Users Are Revolutionizing
the Way We Classify Information - and Make Sense of It." Available as a PDF file in “Course Documents.”
The OPAC: Web-based Adaptations and Innovations
See
“Dynamic Items Recommendations” at http://blyberg.net
, “Enhanced Patron History” at http://www.blyberg.net/2005/12/01/enhanced-patron-history/
,
“PSU’s
Casey Bisson Wins Mellon Award for Innovative Search
Software for Libraries.” Plymouth
State News. 12/4/06. Available online at http://www.plymouth.edu/thirdtier/fullstory.phtml?number=5224.
New Hampshire Public Radio’s interview with Casey Bisson
fro 12/5/06, Available online at http://www.nhpr.org/node/11927
.
Superpatron’s “Build Notes for Amazon AADL Linky.” Available online at http://vielmetti.typepad.com/superpatron/2006/01/build_notes_for.html.
Futures / Looking
Forward
Levine,
Jenny. “Gaming and Libraries:
Intersection of Services.” Library Technology Reports, September /
October 2006. (full issue) Available
online via Academic Search Premier.
McDonald, Robert H. and Chuck Thomas.
“Disconnects Between Library Culture and Millennial
Generation Values.” EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 29(4), 2006. Available online at http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm0640.asp.
Borland, John. "A
Smarter Web." MIT Technology Review, March / April
2007. Available online at http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18306/.
Metz, Cade. "Web 3.0: The Internet
is Changing... Again."
PC Magazine, April 10, 2007. Available online at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2102852,00.asp.
Radar Networks: Web Futures Timeline. Available online at http://novaspivack.typepad.com/RadarNetworksTowardsAWebOS.jpg .
"Tim Berners-Lee on the
Semantic Web." MIT
Technology Review Telescope online film series. Find at http://www.technologyreview.com/?gclid=CKjFyKuen4sCFRscSQodnTxbgQ .
Hunt, Lachlan.
"A Preview of HTML 5." Available
online at http://www.alistapart.com/articles/previewofhtml5
.
"Thirty Library Technology
Predictions for 2008," by Stephen Abram. Available
online at http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2007/12/30_library_tech.html.
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